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ELBERT E. ALDERMAN, OF PORTVILLE, NEW YORK.

PROTECTOR FOR WASH-BOARDS.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 350,283, dated October 5, I886.

Application filed May 17, 1886, Serial No. 202,486. lModel.)

To all whom it may concern: I

Be it known that I, ELBERT E. ALDERMAN, of the town of Portville, in the county of Oattaraugus and State of New York, have invented a new and Improved Protector for Wash-Boards, of which the following is a full, clear, and exact description.

This invention relates to a protector that can be attached to any wash-board, and that has a reacting movement that is'regulated by the movement of the operator.

The object is to protect the front of the wash-womans clothes from the spattering -,water, and still, by the yielding and reacting movement of the protector, to permit the body of the wash-woman to descend far enough to permit the proper use of the hands in the tub.

Reference is to be had to the accompanying drawings, forming part of this specification, in which similar letters of reference indicate corresponding parts in the figures.

Figure 1 represents a perspective view of my protector when detached from the washboard. Fig. 2 represents a perspective view of my protector when attached to the Washboard. Fig. 3 is an end viewof the protector.

A in the accompanying drawings represents the protector, which is made of wood or some other light material, attached to the base B by two coilsprings, O G, and by two rings or hinges, D D. The base '13 has a groove, as shown at E E, in which the bottom of protector A works, thus keeping the water from run Having thus described my invention, I claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent In a wash-board protector, the combination, with the base B, having the groove E, of the protector A, resting in said groove, and the hinges D and springs 0, connecting said base 50 and protector, substantially as described.

ELBERT E. ALDERMAN.

Witnessesz I H. J. CRANDALL, WM. TRENKLE. 

